Asa Gray Quotes

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

Asa Gray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1810 - January 30, 1888

Topics

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Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Joan Halifax

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The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Johannes P. Muller

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I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

Jeremy Northam

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You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.

Aneel Bhusri

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Women tell me they won't date a guy with bad shoes. There are good-looking guys with good-looking outfits, and then really bad-looking square toe I-don't-even-want-to-mention-the-label kind of shoes. There is no reason for that. Again, invest in something that looks proper. A great pair of shoes can make your old outfit look great, too.

John Varvatos

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You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Steve Ross

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What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.

Steve Wynn

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As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

Ross Butler

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I play sports.

Josh Hutcherson

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I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.

Didier Drogba

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We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.

Colin Powell

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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.

Bret Stephens

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